Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freedom from these suspicions would have been enjoyed by almost any Labor leader. But Mr. MacDonald has personal qualities of his own which attract Americans more, perhaps, than they do Englishmen. His capacity for expressing religious and idealistic sentiment in public speeches is more popular and more accepted in America than in England...
...families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph, K. R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil Co. of California. William Wrigley Jr. and John J. Raskob announced that they were buying stocks...
Most famed of the banks which Mr. Giannini's Transamerica controls are California's Bank of Italy, Manhattan's Bank of America. Total assets of Transamerica exceed...
...skillfully it sets forth in five words the regeneration of mankind, suggesting the solution of the tremendous issues of the twentieth century and at the same time delicately alluding to the great and successful United States of the New World. It is undeniable that the chief republic of North America has solved, with reasonable success, the problem of reconciling vast areas and immense populations with a comparatively simple and understandable federal system. It is equally undeniable that since the fall of the Roman Empire nearly fifteen centuries ago the rich Continent of Europe, including the fountains of Western culture...
...barbers' answer to the question "what next?" was given last week in St. Paul, Minn., where 600 delegates and more than 1,500 visitors attended the sixth annual convention of the Master Barbers' Association of America (700 nationwide chapters). Present, of-course, was far-sighted President Otto Ewert of Chicago. Early he struck the progressive note which was to dominate the convention. "It is necessary," said he, "to popularize the facial. Men may consider the facial effeminate. Once they thought the same of brushing their teeth." President Ewert's sentiments were promptly echoed by the barbers assembled...